DavidSchott/twitter-analysis

Use IBM's AlchemyLanguage sentiment/emotion analysis to visualize emotions of tweets.

twitter-analysis

Use IBM's AlchemyLanguage sentiment/emotion analysis to visualize emotions of tweets. A fully functioning version used to be accessible here, but as the API key expired it isn't available right now.

Installation

• $ npm install
• Add bluemix.auth file with valid IBM Bluemix API key. Example:

{
"api_key":"SECRET"
}

• Add twitter.auth file with valid Twitter API credentials. Example:

{
  "consumer_key": "",
  "consumer_secret": "",
  "access_token_key": "",
  "access_token_secret": ""
}

Third-party docs

• Twitter Search API
• Twitter GET request search
• Twitter show User
• Twitter npm module
• IBM AlchemyLanguage Emotion Analysis

Endpoints

/emotion

Sending a GET request with user & limit parameters set will return a JSON object describing emotions of users tweets. For example:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/emotion?user=daschott94&limit=10

will return the following JSON object:

{
  "anger": "0.034728",
  "disgust": "0.006738",
  "fear": "0.014644",
  "joy": "0.859004",
  "sadness": "0.10777",
  "userName": "daschott94",
  "tweets": [
    "I am doing wonderful. This is fantastic.",
    "What a beautiful day today"
  ]
}

/user

Sending a GET request with user parameters set will return a JSON object with account details of user. For example:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/user?user=daschott94

will return the following JSON object:

{
  "id": 804796211286917100,
  "id_str": "804796211286917121",
  "name": "David Schott",
  "screen_name": "daschott94",
  "location": "",
  "profile_location": null,
  "description": "",
  "url": null,
  "entities": {
    "description": {
      "urls": []
    }
  }
  ...
}

/keywords

Sending a GET request with user & limit parameters set will return a JSON object with 10 extracted keywords and their associated sentiments. For example:

$ curl http://localhost:8000/keywords?user=realDonaldTrump&limit=30

will return the following JSON object:

{
"status": "OK",
"usage": "By accessing AlchemyAPI or using information generated by AlchemyAPI, you are agreeing to be bound by the AlchemyAPI Terms of Use: http://www.alchemyapi.com/company/terms.html",
"totalTransactions": "2",
"language": "english",
"keywords": [
{
"relevance": "0.983078",
"sentiment": {
"type": "neutral"
},
"text": "Treasurer John Kennedy"
},
{
"relevance": "0.966023",
"sentiment": {
"score": "-0.690225",
"type": "negative"
},
"text": "Saturday Night Live"
},
...
],
"userName": "realDonaldTrump"
}

Launch

• $ npm start - starts server on port 8000.